Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Compressing ratio
by Guest miracle- 11 replies
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It looks that WinZIP is useless to compress big EXE files. For example, it almost cannot reduce size of big setup file, the compressed file size remains the same(almost). Looks like using WinZIP is useless for compressing big executable files. Am I correct?
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Your security settings do not allow websites to use ActiveX controls installed on your computer
by Guest Trevor Lawrence- 1 reply
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Your security settings do not allow websites to use ActiveX controls installed on your computer How do I stop this message from appearing. I have these ticked In Tools|Internet Options|Advanced|Security: Allow active content from CDs to run on My Computer Allow active content to run in files on My Computer -- Trevor Lawrence Canberra Web Site http://trevorl.mvps.org
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corrupt
by Guest Jackske- 6 replies
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Hi, I made several images of my hard disk with Acronis True Image 11. I did put them all on an external drive. I did check them all and I kept only those which where validate. I had a computer crash and I did want to restore an image. All of them were suddenly corrupt! It is like the police. When you need them they are not on your service. Jacques Wenger Belgium
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keyboard error when locking the machine
by Guest lab-guy- 2 replies
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Hi all - Lock my machine several times a day using (win key & L) when I walk away from the desk. When I come back, I put in my password and I'm in. Sometimes, though, I get an error when putting in my password, that the caps lock in on. I cannot turn caps lock off, and can't get back in to the machine, so end up shutting it down. Is extra annoying because I run an emulator window to an AS400 , and the 400 doesn't always let be back in right away. Any ideas ? Thanks - Mike
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install 02 win xp on the same disk
by Guest tomgomes1- 2 replies
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I am in need to install another win xp pro SP3 on the same Disk partitioned in C: and D: in NTFS format. I ask: Is it possible to get it or there will be conflict? For the boot what is the best? I think to rewrite the command line in boot.ini, like it: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)Windows= "Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)Windows="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition" /fastdetect This will work? Or then I tink also in use the magic boot from partition magic Could MVP explain to me?
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Usernames not showing up.
by Guest Runner- 6 replies
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I recently downloaded windows steadystate. It then restarted my computer for an update about an hour or two later. It restarted, I got to the welcome screen, and I couldn't see any usernames nor the turn-off button. I restarted my computer, tried to log on in safe mode, and still no usernames. Could someone possibly help me?
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Outlook ignores rules
by Guest Dudely- 2 replies
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Outlook 2000 is ignoring some of my rules. Please note, many of my rules do in fact work. There are however a handful that simply will not do what I tell them to do. For example, I have a rule setup to look in the message header for "X- Sender: laxminivasmittal@gmail.com" (no quotes) - I'm simply cutting & pasting from a real received email whose spam I'm trying to delete. It processes my inbox, but never finds a match even though it is without question in there. I've also tried looking for the From: line as a match on the sender. No go. Any solutions? Thank you in advance
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Cleaning Out Temporary Files
by Guest Jack Gillis- 16 replies
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I am trying to clean up my HD's and find many files with a .tmp extension. I understand they can be removed with no problem. Am I correct? Thank you.
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where does all the memory go
by Guest chasgl- 2 replies
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When I start my computer it has about 300 megs in use. But after a while Task Manager says it has 800 to 900 megs in use, which is more that I have so it uses virtual memory and slows down. But if I look at the processes tab it only adds up to about 120 megs. I do have show processes from all users selected. What could be using the rest of the memory? How can I chase it down? Thanks, Chas
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unsuccessful attempts to repair XP Pro
by Guest x+country- 1 reply
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I had a cpu failure and replaced the both MB and CPU, with newer items. I had no opportunity to load the new MB and its appurtenant drivers. After assembling the MB, CPU and attaching the hard drive, I booted up and was taken to the page with the option of safe mode, last successful load, and t he other two options. Even with safe mode, the computer simply rebooted. I attempting to repair the OS program following the procedure outlined on http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winxppro/installxpcdrepair/indexfullpage.htm the computer has an endless loop of rebooting at the conclusion of part 3 and before part 4 (when it is copys files and does a reboot on …
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Cannot edit .UDL file?
by Guest Bill- 2 replies
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Running XP Pro SP3. When I double click a .UDL file to change the ADO database connection properties I now get the error "Foo.udl is not a valid Win32 application". This has alway worked in the past, although it has been several months since the last time I edited a UDL. What must I reinstall or configure to get this working again? -- ..Bill.
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Browsing problems
by Guest Paul Smith- 1 reply
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Hi all I have clicked on Delete all to clear history, cookies etc and now I cant access some sites!! But the funny thing is that at work I can access all sites! @ work Internet is accessed trough a proxy What can I do??
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Dual Boot question (I will also post in XP Help and Support)
by Guest ScottNOFX- 4 replies
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I have a computer with two hard drives. Can I use ghost to create an image of ny C: Drive, then install that image to the other drive (J: Drive) Then boot to J: Drive? Will this cause any issues? It seems like it might. I want to streamline the J: Drive for games only, I do not want them on my C: Drive don't want to load anymore programs than I need for business. If this is okay and will not cause any issues, how do I boot to the other Drive? Thanks in advance I will also post in XP Help and Support
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Lost Part of Control Panel - Pls Help
by Guest Molly- 23 replies
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First I noticed that the single click on the mouse was no longer an option, maybe 3 days ago. When I went to the control panel, the mouse Icon was gone, actually the entire part of the interface that let me get to the windows display, to set the wallpaper and change the pixels on the monitor was gone as well. I've taken the registry back two days but would like to know if this is a probable solution before taking the registry back further. I've just lost beaucoup time because of another problem. Thank-you, Molly
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Hard Drive Missing in My Computer
by Guest ctc- 5 replies
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1 of my existing 4 hard drives (not OS drive, data only) no longer appears in My Computer or Disk Management. The missing drive is a WD500gb SATA on an installed SATA card. Both are recognized by the Bios upon bootup. Both are recognized in the device manager and their properties state that they are working properly. The drive is found by Add Remove Hardware and is listed as working properly. And the Data Lifeguard Tools finds the drive and states that it is working properly. No other programs can see the drive. I have uninstalled the drive from Device Manager and upon rebooting it is automatically displayed there and it's properties state that it is w…
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Suddenly lost most of my drive letters - no SD!
by Guest teddysnips@hotmail.com- 3 replies
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I don't often use the media slots in my XP machine, so I don't know when the problem occurred, but I've just tried to view some photos on my SD (miniSD?) card and suddenly I can't see it (the card, I mean). So I went to Explore My Computer and noticed that, whereas I used to have drives D, E, F, G, H and I (or something) suddenly there are just two (C: and D: - the CD) If I put a pen drive into the USB port I get an E:. But putting a card into the SD port and nothing. nada. Anyone any ideas? Thanks Edward
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"About Windows" popup box after each user logon
by Guest Michel416- 1 reply
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After every user logon my laptop with Windows XP SP3 displays the About Windows popup box (same popup box as if you would select Help/About Windows in Windows Explorer). I am not sure how I caused this to be happening. Could anyone please tell me how to get rid of this popup. It is quite annoying. Thanks...Michel.
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Download resume
by Guest miracle- 1 reply
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When upload big files via FTP (Filezilla), I have been disconnected from remote server few times "Error: disconnected from server", then reconnected again (and one time do this manually). Can the FTP protocol provide full resume of downloads, without without lossing any byte of data, to keep full file integrity?
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Hibernation/Turn off hard drives Options?
by Guest rfIPS- 5 replies
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I have a user with a desktop that runs super warm. He doesn't like to close everything and shut down his computer so he's entering it into hibernation. The problem is that it takes several attempts to wake it up out of hibernation; it will come out eventually but only after several attempts. After doing some research, I found it could be related to graphics drivers which I am in the process of troubleshooting. In the meantime, can someone tell me what the option for "turning off hard drives" would do? Has anyone had problems with this? Also, if applicable: this is a remote user that VPNs in to the network. I suspect he probably just puts it in hibernati…
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Unable to start Automatic Update
by Guest Pseu- 3 replies
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Hello. System: Win XP Media Centre Edition – Service Pack 3 Somehow, I picked up a variant of VirtuMonde; Symantec Anti-virus, Spybot Search & Destroy etc did not locate it; I discovered it by chance using Windows Sysinternals Process Explorer. I ran Vundo Fix 7.0.0.6 and it removed three traces of VirtuMonde, I then rebooted and ran Vundo Fix 7.0.0.6 again, this time it found nothing. However, I noticed that Automatic Update was disabled. Irrespective of how many so-called “fixes” I try, I cannot enable it via Services. When I set it to automatic and click start, I receive the following message: Could not start the Automatic Updates service on…
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desktop
by Guest canuck9999- 4 replies
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my desktop is upside down how do i correct this? -- pow8765
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Web page opened-up position in task bar
by Guest Vincent- 1 reply
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I don't see what I've done recently so that the web pages I opened all appeared on the right, instead of the left corner of the task bar, which is the usual case. What's more, only one page was in sight on the task bar, I'd to use the up- and downward arrows to come to another page. Could anyone tell me how to come back to the default setting of the task bar, please? Thanking you in advance. Vincent
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Dual CPU Support?
by Guest messiur_geek- 3 replies
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Hello. I am building a system that will use XP SP3. Its motherboard has 2 slots for Xeon processors, and both will be full with Xeon dual-core 2.4GHz processors that use the x86 instruction set. Will I be able to use both in XPSP3?
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nslookup reports wrong DNS server
by Guest Robert S- 1 reply
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I've been having a few networking problems contacting other computers. We have a small network with a router (192.168.0.1) and a DNS/DHCP server (192.168.0.33). The router is able to provide these services but I have disabled DHCP. Despite this, the nslookup command reports the router as the DNS server. C:\Documents and Settings>nslookup google.com Server: http://www.routerlogin.com Address: 192.168.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: google.com Addresses: 64.233.167.99, 64.233.187.99, 72.14.207.99 All of the other PCs on our network (correctly) use 192.168.0.33 as the DNS server. I've tried setting the DNS server manually to 192.168.…
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Windows cannot configure wireless connection
by Guest Flaagent- 1 reply
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I can connect to my wireless network at home but I'm at another location with wireless service and I cannot connect to any wireless networks. The Windows message says "Windows cannot configure this wireless connection. if you have enabled another program to manage this wireless connection, use that software. If you want Windows to configure this wireless connection, start the Wireless Configuration Service. I did this per the instruction in Microsoft article 871122 but it's still not working. My computer crashed and the hard drive was replaced a few months ago by a professional, who reloaded the operating system. I did not have this problem b…